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The flaw with your example is that the revolutionaries didn't have a problem with educated people; they had a problem with educated Tsarists. Marx, Lenin, Stalin (etc.) were all highly educated and they did not discourage education among non-Tsarists. In fact, many of them believed that the logical conclusion any truly educated person would come to is that communism and socialism were the best possible outcomes for society.

I don't have a problem with science, just these clown scientists running these biased experiments.

I don't have a problem with the media, just these clown journalists running these biased articles.

I actually agree completely. It's just like that. Glad you're on board. Disagreeing with the warped performance of individual practitioners of a discipline -- even a lot of them -- is not disagreement with the discipline itself.

My experience has been that conservatives disdain higher learning because they get frustrated when academia doesn't bend to their political views.

It's not that academia is pushing a liberal agenda. My experience is that it doesn't have a coordinated agenda at all. Most professors can't coordinate their own clothes. Professors and researchers, particularly in the humanities, happen to be professionals more concerned with the small world of academic debates which they inhabit. Conservatives' problems seem to come in when such research doesn't prove conservative cultural talking points, because conservatives tend to politicize every area of life. So if academic research is apolitical, it represents a threat to such pan-politicization. Therefore that research, and those who carry it out, are cast as outsiders and un-American. It puts a damper on intellectual public discourse.

Clearly, you're not especially well versed in "intersectionality" -- the overarching theory meant to unite the 'humanities', and professors thereof, in social liberal lockstep. It's so well enforced that some poor LIBERAL professor was literally threatened off campus for failing to abide by a "no white people" day.

This is a direct quote from a recent Harvard Divinity School Job Posting ...

It is understood that applicants will employ forms of analysis that address race, gender, sexuality, and/or other intersecting forms of social power, such as womanist, feminist, and/or queer approaches.

When that is an explicit part of the hiring criteria for a professor of Divinity at an elite school ... how is that not pushing a "liberal agenda"? I can't see a scenario where any non-liberal could be even considered for that job. In a Divinity school.

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